They barely seem tall now, unless you're standing right underneath them.Also, I would like the 500-600' towers in the financial district to still seem tall.
^What is the "Philadelphia Effect"?
^What is the "Philadelphia Effect"?
Oh sorry should have specified this. The Philadelphia Effect (for me) is the effect where the 5 tallest towers basically dominate the rest of the skyline. It is most apparent at ground level when a 500' building looks short because of being right next to a 900' building. Boston's financial district has 13 buildings between 500'-614' (not to mention 496' Custom House), and they all look tall when you are walking around the city. I don't want 1 building to be so large that it trivializes the rest of these towers, both at ground level and in the skyline. The original proposal would have done just that. It was so much bigger, that it would have looked like downtown had just 1 tall tower, instead of 13-14 pretty tall towers.
Wait what? In your previous post, you are calling for a 925' obelisk shape tower. At this height, this tower is only 50 feet shorter than the Comcast Center, 20 feet shorter than 1 Liberty Place and more than 50 feet taller than 2 Liberty Place. Yet you stated that in Philly, these taller towers are making everything else look shorter in the city. So technically, a 925' obelisk tower would still make downtown look like "1 tall tower, instead of 13-14 pretty tall towers." If anything, the only solution is to make this tower around the range of 700 ft or have the Philadelphia effect so that it would look like 5-6 pretty tall towers instead of just one.